Elizabeth Lesser Quotes

I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.

Elizabeth Lesser

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• I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Love
  • Interesting
  • Two

• I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Love
  • Around
  • Days

• Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.

  

  Taylor Branch
  • King
  • Leader
  • Values

• I wouldn't ever pose naked... I'm fine to do bikinis and certainly lingerie if I feel it's done tastefully... cute like Victoria's Secret, but nothing like raunchy or overly sexual.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Done
  • Cute
  • Naked

• You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Sweet

• I've got tons more stuff to do.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Stuff
  • More
  • Got

• I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • Believe
  • Man

• I feel like a lot of people would quite easily stab you in the back once they get what they want. And you see that in people.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Want
  • Feel

• With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while they're going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Brain
  • Imagination
  • Perception

• You don't know who wants you for you, who wants you for the money, who wants you for the fame. You have no idea. And how would you know? There's no way.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Money
  • Know
  • Fame

• Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Law

• The problem isn't that conservatives are wrong about the efficiency of markets or the creativity of enterprise. It's that they have made false idols of both, usually without acknowledging that markets work best when well regulated, that private enterprise cannot meet every human need, that government has always played a critical role in our economy, and that the profit motive can be socially and environmentally destructive as well as dynamic.

  

  Joe Conason
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Creativity

• I'm a vampire, idiot. I don't have x-ray vision." "Some supernatural monster you are, remind me to trade you in for a werewolf, bro. Probably be more useful right now.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Vision
  • Monster
  • Vampire

• Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Mind
  • Surviving

• No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Inspiration

• The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual. This being the situation, it is clear that you cannot develop your personality at all in Hinduism.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Ideas
  • Spiritual
  • Personality

• There are other great writers who are not read properly in their own day for the reason, perhaps, that their readers are not yet born. What they have to say to their own generation is said so at cross-purposes and with such apparent irrelevance that it is not understood. They are, as it were, giants who tower above their own age to cast their shadows across the next.

  

  Caroline Gordon
  • Great
  • Age
  • Purpose

• The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Women
  • Want
  • Trouble

• I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble with me because all of that energy was directed in a positive way.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Parents
  • Problem
  • Child

• The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it has been cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Truth
  • Assumption

• I want to write. I want to direct. I want to produce - I want to inhabit what I think it means to fully be an artist.

  

  Aja Naomi King

• I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Trouble
  • Tribalism